8/22/2008
the morning drive

Through the eye of a camera…God’s creation is beautiful and wondrous.
Every little detail is so carefully thought out…and there is a symphony of beauty and order- right down to the smallest creature, plant and cell.

Blue Dasher Dragonfly (male) Pachydiplax longipennis (what we don’t see very clearly here are the amazing green eyes on this bug.)
I don’t know how anyone could imagine in their wildest dreams that all of this happened by accident.
Life is interdependent…how could one thing appear alone… when its food or prey is its perfect match? It all had to happen at once. The food chain couldn’t have just morphed from one type of animal…that theory is incomprehensible. There is no evidence of one species mutating into another…in the fossil record, or in the lab; evolution has never been observed; it’s an untested antiquated victorian-era theory.
Nor could one species morph into another if it was placed in the right environment.
This they found out when the Russian biologist Trofim Lysenko tried to posit the notion that if you plant something in a rye field, what will eventually turn up is rye…this hypothesis and the experiments he held up as proof- was eventually exposed as a fraud.

Great Blue Heron or Ardea herodias

The Common Whitetail or Long-tailed Skimmer, Libellula lydia - Common dragonfly (male)
I like to try and unravel and identify the mysteries and possible stories of what it is I’m shooting…it’s part of the fun.

Cabbage butterfly, or Pieris rapae (Linnaeus)
I’m not a real fan of bugs, but if they pose for me and I have my camera handy, I make sure to get a shot of them for closer examination later.
They always amaze me when I get a closer look at them.









